COLUMBUS, Ohio — Turnabout was a pretty fair play for the Columbus Blue Jackets Saturday night, as they spent the third period burning the Flyers rather than melting down as they had done in Philadelphia two nights before.

Perhaps with that five-goal Philly third period still ringing in their heads, and having blown a two-goal lead on this night in the last few minutes of the second period, the Blue Jackets dug deep and found a way to beat the Flyers at their own final-frame comeback game...

They blitzed right by them.

Missing the shot-blocking ability of defenseman Nick Grossmann (flu), and really acting like they weren’t very interested in playing defense on this night anyway, the Flyers stood idly by as the Blue Jackets scored four times in the third period en route to a 6-3 victory.

Ryan Johansen and former Flyer R.J. Umberger scored twice each, and David Savard had a goal and assist for Columbus (15-17-4, 34 points), which had to deal with a hurtful injury along the way.

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Having just gotten veteran skill player Marian Gaborik back after an 18-game knee injury absence, the Jackets had to watch Gaborik go off after getting checked high on the left shoulder by a speeding Zac Rinaldo. Gaborik first crashed into Braydon Coburn, then fell to the ice before being helped off.

He was later diagnosed with a broken collar bone and is out indefinitely. The Rinaldo hit might get a look by the league just because he’s Zac Rinaldo, but replays indicate it was a perfectly legal hit.

The Blue Jackets, who entered the third period Thursday night in Philadelphia with a 3-0 lead and looked on as the Flyers turned that into a 5-4 loss for them, dispensed with giving up the lead early this time.

Goals by Johansen and Umberger had staked them to an early 2-0 lead. Then, during a Flyers power play late in the second period, the Blue Jackets broke back 2-on-1. Brandon Dubinsky had Ray Emery beaten with a shot that looked ticketed for a 3-0 lead. Instead, the puck rebounded off the crossbar all the way out to the blue line.

The Flyers picked up the loose puck and broke back 3-on-2, and Wayne Simmonds finished it with a scoring shot from the high slot, seven seconds after the Flyers power play had expired.

Essentially, that extended play was a two-goal turnaround, and the who could blame the young Blue Jackets for being a might taken aback?

They were stunned enough to not get back off the ensuing faceoff, and again the Flyers broke in. Vinny Lecavalier, fresh off a nine-game absence with a nondisplaced fracture in his back, chipped the puck slotward. It tipped off Matt Read’s stick and Sean Couturier managed to bounce it in off Jackets goalie Curtis McElhinney for a game-tying goal at the 18-minute mark of the period.

The goals that came 20 seconds apart could have brought back a flood of Thursday memories for the Jackets, especially since they had to think about it during the second intermission.

But maybe that was a good thing, because Columbus came out flying for the third period.

The game turned again because the speedy Jackets started getting people in front of Emery on a consistent basis. That allowed Savard to send a wrist shot from far out on the right point, and have Emery not see it as it flew over him and under the crossbar 3:36 into the third for a 3-2 lead.

It happened again just two minutes and change later, as Nikita Nikitin fired a distant shot into traffic, and it hit off Jackets center Boone Jenner and went past Emery for 4-2.

The Flyers (16-16-4), having abandoned the defensive posture that serves them well altogether, then tried to take some chances. And that helped Johansen essentially end it with a wrist shot off another Blue Jackets rush into the zone.

Wayne Simmonds would score his second of the night late, giving the Flyers reason to pull Emery for an extra skater again. But then Umberger scored into the empty net to really end it.